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Tired But Wired: How to Overcome Your Sleep Problems: The ...

Tired But Wired: How to Overcome Your Sleep Problems: The ...

Nerina Ramlakhan

... Undoing Depression, Souvenir Press: London, 2010 Simon Wessely, Matthew Hotopf and Michael Sharpe, Chronic Fatigue and its Syndromes, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1999 Chapter 4 Alyssa Abbey, Stop Making Excuses and Start ...
Secularism, Theology and Islam: The Danish Social Imaginary ...

Secularism, Theology and Islam: The Danish Social Imaginary ...

Jennifer Elisa Veninga

Nerina Rustomji offers a helpful analysis of the way in which the concept of the houri have been sensationalized and distorted in American news media. See Nerina Rustomji, “American Visions of the Houri,” Muslim World (January 1, 2007 ).
The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose

Sarah R. bin Tyeer

Nerina Rustomji maintains, [...]the non-event driven Garden and Fire are so ubiquitous within Islamic texts that they do more than provide details of the life to come; they inform a sensibility.[...] many theological and literary works employ ...
The Qur'an: An Introduction

The Qur'an: An Introduction

Abdullah Saeed

53 StefanTheil, 'Challengingthe Quran:Scholar's New Book, A Commentary on the Qur'an'sEarly Genesis', cited in Nerina Rustomji, 'American Visionsof the Houri',TheMuslim World, vol. 97, January 2007, p. 88. 54Alexander Stille, ' Radical ...
Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule

Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule

Melissa Schwartzberg

My dear friends Michael Adler, Dana Burde, Kristin Karner, Nalo McGibbon, Nerina Rustomji, Takumi Sato, Lina Umylny, Barry Vasudevan, Wendy Woodford, and Ivan and Karla Zeitz have helped keep me relatively sane over these difficult  ...
Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History

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Nerina Rustomji IDEAS ABOUT MARRIAGE, in Islamic theological texts, have structured expectations Abbasid era, of marriage how Muslim not only men had and an women Islamic ought ethic,1 to but interact. its variations By the and ...
Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam

Muslim Identities: An Introduction to Islam

Aaron Hughes

NeRiNa Rustomji, author of The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture “Hughes masterfully avoids the simplistic, monolithic, and normative Islamic identities advocated by various traditionalist, liberal, and Islamist Muslims as ...
Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco

Two Arabs, a Berber, and a Jew: Entangled Lives in Morocco

Lawrence Rosen

On Islamic concepts of death and the afterlife, see Jane Idleman Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection (Albany: SUNY Press, 1981); and Nerina Rustomji, The Garden and the Fire: Heaven ...
The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture

The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture

Nerina Rustomji

A group of scholars, including David Armitage, Dick Bulliet, kristen Gillespie, Geraldine Heng, Syed Akbar Hyder, Ayesha Jalal, Neil kamil, Jean Ma, Abd al- Razzaq Moaz, Laura Neitzel, Cindy Postma, Alan Segal, and Denise Spellberg ...

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